Imagine them parked in your condo garage!!-----The scary business of putting out an EV fire | David Booth | Driving

The scary business of putting out an EV fire | David Booth | Driving - David Booth

• The only certainty in dousing an electric-vehicle fire is that there are no certainties

"...I couldn’t believe the numbers that I am going to spring on you, that fire engines generally hold between 500 and 1,500 gallons of water. ..
The reason you’re going to need that long division is that, according to an article by the International Association of Fire and Rescue Services — which quotes Austin Fire Department Division Chief Thayer Smith — it can take as many as 40,000 gallons of water to completely extinguish a roaring Tesla fire.

That is — and now you see why I rounded up — equivalent to 40 fire engines...